The Penn's Grove record., 1887-03-19

Judge also refused to order the empln
cling OF a new Grand Jury to try the
cases. The matter will go to the Su.
preme Court.
"A telegram from Abilene, Kansas,
says that at Leotl, Wichita county, on
the 9th, Adjutant General Campbell
arrested fourteen Of the Coronado men
who are charged with the killing Of
Coulter and others. Warrants were
issued for forty. both towns threw
up forts and were prepared for war"
The State Department is informed
that the cholera has spread through
portions of the CHILEAN provinces OF
Aconeagua and Valparaiso, and is ex
tending toward the sea. At a station
on the railroad between Santiago and
Valparaiso, 30 miles from the latter,
about 600 cases have so far been re.
ported, of which about $50 have proved
fatal.
"A passenger train on the Jackson
vile Southeastern Railroad ran off
the track near Girard, Illinois, on the
afternoon of the 18th, and two cars
we're dltched. Thirty persons were in
jured, three dangerously. One of the
injured, State Senator Southworth, is
not likely to recover.
The gram and commission ware
house of Jones Brothers, in Win
chester, Kentucky, was destroyed by
FIRE on the 18th. Loss, $50 goo; in
surance, S35, 600. The Ryan Block,
at Aspen, Colorado, was burned on
the evening of the 10th. Loss. $25,
600. A fire In Hughesville, Missouri,
on the 11th, destroyed four buildings,
causing a loss of 500 600.
1t has been discovered that large
quantities of OPIUM BROUGHT America
by way of British Columbia have been
passing through Detroit r. a. West,
a temporary resident of that city, was
arrested on the 1lth and held in
$4,000 bail to answer the charge of
smuggling. The customs authorities
say that by smuggling this opium the
Government has been swindled out of
nearly $50, 0U0 customs duties. The
opium was sent out from this city usu-
ally to California, labelled glassware, .
drugs etc. On Its receipt at Wind
sor it appeared as Chinese curios."
Paul R~elnlein, aged 81 years, a
prominent druggist OF Washington,
died on the 18th from the effects of
drinking aconite by mistake for whisky.
He discovered his error in about five
minutes. but it was then too late.
The latest developments in the Den
mead hovel horror in New brunswick,
New Jersey, show tnat no marriage
certificate could be found among the
papers of the brothers, and that 1t is
doubtful if the dead woman was mar
ried to one of them. She had been dead
for at least two months. An investi-
CATION is going on to determine the
cause of her death and that of Robert
Denmead. There is a difference OF
opinion as to whether they died from
natural causes or were murdered.
p. II. Hennessy, Sergeant-at-Arms
or the Senate of Texas, wa arrested in
Austin, on the 10Th, on complaint OF
Senator KnIttle, chairman of the Com
mittee on Contingent Expenses, who
charged HIM with having raised a Sl0O
warrant on the treasurer to $3.50. Hen.
messy was held in $1,000 bail. AleXan-
der Hamilton, a blacksmith of Kilsyth,
Ontario, is reported to have disappeared
with $40, the receipts of a church con
cert and tea meeting. Forgeries by
him, a~ggregating $4,000, have been dis
covered.
AT cambridge, Georgia, on the
10th, the wife of j. II. Hawley died
from the effects of morphine gwen her
by her husband in mistake, it is said
for quinine. On returning from the
funeral on the 18th, Hawley was ar
rested for bigamy, and confessed that
he had wives in South Carolina and
Florida. He is 10 suspected of the
murder of his wife.
William Jackson, convicted of tn
murder of Brode Fryer, in April, 1885,
on the 18th to % years in the penlten-
tiary. The same night a masked mob
took Jackson from the Jail and lynched
HIM. at the time of the killing mob
violence was threatened and the pris-
oner was removed to the Jail at Cow
ngton. where he remained for a year.
The post-ofice at Tubac, Arizona,
was blown up by dynamite on the night
of the 4th instant.
AT Howell, Michigan, on the 18th
a FIRE broke out IN F. u. MonrOe's
hardware store, and was followed by
an explosion which wrecked the build
ing. The fire spread and destroyed
four blocks of stores and a row of
frame buildings, casusing losses ag-
2regating $4,000, on which, there is
$40, 600 insurance. lneendiarism IS in
dictated. Mr.. Monroe is Chairman OF
the County Prohibition Committee.
He recently received the following let
ter: Detroit, Feb. 81, 16S7-F. n.
Monroe, Howell, Mich, Sir: | wish
to inform you that you must stop your
work in the prohibition cause, or we
will burn you out, root and branch.
You may prepare for the worst as We
are on your track. Many saloon keep
ers." George Luppert's furniture
warehouse at WiIllamspoIt, Penna.,
was burned on the morning Of the 18th.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, 2l,0O0. A
fire in Memphis on the 18th, destroyed
about 1850 bales OF cotton stored in
Voorhees, cotton shed. The loss is
covered by insurance. Haywood
Brothers chair factory on Cherry
street, New York, was damaged by fire
on the afternoon of the 18th to the eX-
tent of $4,000.
Near Springfield, Missouri, on the
llth, a gang OF armed men went 10 the
house of William Eaton, b-oke down